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When I woke up, the sun was roughly in the middle of the sky. I had slept maybe five hours, which was a lot more than usual.
"Mornin'" Lukas said.
"We didn't switch."
"I didn't wanna wake you.
"Oh, thanks...we can switch now?"
"Yeah, sure. Thanks."
"No problem." I smiled.
I stood up and stretched my arms before sitting where Lukas had before.
"See anything?" I asked him.
"Nothin'." He replied.
"Good."
xXx
"Mornin' Nat. You sleep okay?" I asked when Natalie woke up two hours later.
"Yeah - the bed's comfier than it looks. Was the couch okay?"
"It was fine - I got in maybe five hours sleep. You had about seven or eight."
"Wow that long? I can't even remember the last time I slept that long without waking up. I didn't even dream!" She said.
"I filled up your water bottle, cleaned your knife."
"Oh, thanks. How long's he been asleep?"
"Couple hours."
She nodded.
"Either of you see anything?"
"Nah, not a thing out there."
"That's good right?" She asked.
I hesitated.
"I think so."
xXx
"So, what's our plan of action? Are we just gonna stay here?" Natalie asked when we were all sat around the table in the kitchen.
The map was spread out and the pens were within reach. Black, blue and red.
"We could keep heading South?" Lukas suggested.
"Wait so we're where?"
"We're here, Dalton. We wanna stay clear of places that are highly populated if we can." I said.
"South of here there's Calhoun, that's pretty small. Rome, Douglasville..."
"They're all pretty close to Atlanta. Is that safe?"
"Natalie's right." I said.
"Maybe we go South, but we don't go into Atlanta, that way we don't get stuck in the city, and we can keep moving to places like Cordele."
"Fort Benning maybe?" I suggested.
Lukas nodded.
"Right, for now, no plan. Just head South and stay clear of Atlanta. We'll have Fort Benning in mind, but if we have too many run ins, we'll have to find another place."
"Alright."
I picked up the red pen and put a strike over Atlanta, then picked up the blue pen and circled Dalton.
"Are we leaving now?"
I looked to Lukas for his opinion.
"Uh...we've got a few hours of daylight. I say we go look for a car, if we can't find somewhere before it starts getting dark, we head back here."
"Sounds good to me." I said.
Natalie nodded.
I folded the map and gave it to Lukas. He shoved it in his back pack and picked up his bottle of water, shoving that in there too.
"Grab your shit and let's go."